The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1956
Awarded on: 1956-10-18
"for their discoveries concerning heart catheterization and pathological changes in the circulatory system"
Affiliations:
- Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
Dickinson W. Richards
Born: 1895-10-30 in Orange, NJ, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physician and physiologist
Biography
Dickinson Woodruff Richards Jr. was an American physician and physiologist. He was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 with André Cournand and Werner Forssmann for the development of cardiac catheterization and the characterisation of a number of cardiac diseases.